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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 31.
Published in final edited form as: Cell Rep. 2019 Apr 23;27(4):1190–1204.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.03.086

Figure 1. Study design and bacterial burdens in samples.

Figure 1.

A. Endotracheal tubes eliminated bronchoscope contact with oropharyngeal (OP) tissues. B. Control samples included mouth rinses, throat aspirates, saline passed through each sterile catheter (used for throat aspirates) and bronchoscope prior to use (called scope and catheter pre-washes), and reagent controls. C. Organisms considered CF pathogens in this study. D. Total bacterial abundance detected in mouth rinse, catheter pre-wash, throat aspirate, scope pre-wash samples (n=22 for each); and BALs (n=102 as ~4 BAL samples were obtained for most subjects). Line indicates mean, and error bars standard deviation values. Here and below, qPCR data is the mean of 2 technical replicates. See also Figure S1, S2, Table S1, S2, and S3.